Category: On Writing
SEX BOLTS & CHICKEN LOOP
SEX BOLTS & CHICKEN LOOP On being bold at 50 My husband picked up furniture building when he was 50. Over the course of six months, he made two tables so beautiful that people offered to buy them for considerable sums. What should I build next? he asks me. I scan my saved images of […]
Rebecca A. Ward, LMFT: My Publishing Journey
Rebecca A. Ward, LMFT: My Publishing Journey At the persistent urging of friends and family, I started writing my book, The Paper Tiger Syndrome: How to Liberate Yourself from the Illusion of Fear, at the start of the COVID lockdown in March 2020. As a licensed therapist and trauma warrior, I felt compelled to share […]
Writing Mummy Noir
‘I wanted to write the ultimate horror story: What if my child vanished? What if this happened to me as a mum?’ By Amanda Cassidy Kidnapped kids, Machiavellian mummys, babies switched at birth, twisted toddlers…Why do women, many mothers themselves, want to write about the deeply sinister when it comes to parenthood? As an author of a […]
From Your Friend, Carey Dean Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row: Excerpt
Lisa’s newest book, From Your Friend, Carey Dean: Letters from Nebraska’s Death Row (2022), is a memoir/biography. In 1995, when Lisa visited Nebraska’s death row with other death penalty abolitionists, she became acquainted with one of the inmates. For the next 23 years, through visits, phone calls, and letters, a remarkable, platonic friendship flourished between […]
Meredith Schor: My Publishing Journey
With seven published books already under my belt, my debut novel was released on June 7th. I can sense the confusion. Like the author who releases her debut adult romance after publishing several young adult novels or a multi-published author’s debut under a pen name, As Seen on TV is my trade paperback debut—in other […]
Fear Not if Your Novel is Really a Short Story
Fear Not if Your Novel is Really a Short Story by D.Z. Stone It took multiple novel drafts written in various writing groups over twenty-five years for me to finally realize that what I’d been working on all this time was a short story. I discovered this all quite accidentally, after a seemingly innocuous Facebook […]
The Power of Positive Thinking and Affirmations
Copyright © Jane Enright 2022 As authors, finding our writing voice can sometimes be challenging—especially during uncertain times. Similarly, mastering the art of positive thinking when we don’t know what the next five minutes might bring can be challenging too. Positive thinking gives us an extreme advantage during times of extreme stress; yet I believe […]
Turning the Page: Lee Bukowski
As I look back, I’m not sure exactly how it happened. I sat at my kitchen counter drinking coffee one Saturday morning and had an epiphany. I’d like to say I saw the Blessed Mother in the swirls of cream in my mug, but it wasn’t anything that dramatic. After raising my two daughters and […]
Writing CARRY ME: stories of Pregnancy Loss
When I started miscarrying, only two people besides me and my husband Joe knew about the pregnancy. A week in, I still hadn’t told anyone else besides the dozen hospital staff who’d attended to me, concerned it was an ectopic pregnancy. Not even Mom knew, more therapist/bestie these days than parent. I knew I should […]
The Other Sister—A Birth Order Story
By Nan Reinhardt In my new novel, Falling for the Doctor, the hero Max Lange is the classic youngest child. Carefree and always wanting everyone to be happy—living in an imaginary world where life is exactly as it should be, believing the best about people, whether they deserve it or not. It was interesting to […]
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